Guilford Education Alliance - Empowering Students for Success

Guilford Education Alliance aims to prepare students in Guilford County to succeed in higher education and their chosen careers. They emphasize the importance of achieving educational excellence, diversity, and high standards in literacy skills development. Through initiatives like literacy instruction programs and resources, they equip students with the necessary skills for personal and academic growth.

• Education
• Literacy
• Guilford County
• Student Success
• Academic Excellence

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1. Welcome to Let s Talk Education! Thank you to today s sponsors:

2. Guilford Education Alliance The Science of Reading January 2018 SHARON L. CONTRERAS, PH.D. | SUPERINTENDENT

3. 3 Mission Guilford county students will graduate as responsible citizens prepared to succeed in higher education, or in the career of their choice.* *This mission was adopted by the Guilford County Board of Education on December 12, 2000. Vision ACHIEVING EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

4. 4 As a school system, we must ensure that we operate an Diversity organization in which talent is ubiquitous so that every Equality Empathy single student in Guilford County Schools fulfills the opportunity of a world-class Innovation Integrity education.

5. 5 When we hold students to Guilford high standards, students rise County Schools, It s Personal. to meet our expectations.

6. 6 6 What s the truth about learning to read? Young students will learn to read if adults just read to them. Learning the names of letters is not critical for learning to read. English is one of the top five hardest languages to learn how to read and write.

7. Research tells us how people develop their literacy skills. Adapted from Scarborough 2001

8. Are you Smarter Than a __ Grader? 8

9. 9 Literacy Instruction Phonemic Awareness Phonics Vocabulary Fluency Comprehension

10. Literacy Resources in GCS 10 K-2 3-9 10-12 Core American Reading Company Click to add text Knowledge Language Arts District Units

11. Register today at GuilfordEducationAlliance.org 11